Articles by Krishnendu Banerjee

Climate Change: Harvard Scientists Want to Put 'Sunglasses' on Earth to Reduce Global Warming

By injecting tiny particles or aerosols, scientists want to reflect some of the Sunlight and artificially cool the atmosphere as volcanos do.

Dec 8, 2020

Apple Developing 32-Core M1 Chip Successor to Replace Intel from Higher-End Mac

Apple will replace Intel from higher-end MacBooks by 2021 and will launch a higher-powered M1 successor for Mac Pro workstations by 2022

Dec 7, 2020

NUS Study Shows Robot Vacuum Cleaners Can Be Hacked to Spy on People

By modifying LiDAR sensors on robot vacuum cleaners, hackers can use it for LidarPhone attack and listen to private conservation for extracting sensitive information

Dec 7, 2020

Cybersecurity NUS

Chinese Phone Manufacturer Gionee Secretly Installed Malware in Over 20 Million Devices

A Chinese court found a Gionee subsidiary and its partner guilty of intentionally implanting malware secretly in Gionee phones to make money

Dec 6, 2020

Cybersecurity

Stanford Researchers Say Study of Lava Crystals Could Help Predict Future Volcanic Eruptions

As predicting the next volcanic activity has been faulty, scientists believe lava crystals that form in the scoria rock could help them understand volcano behavior better

Dec 6, 2020

Malaysian Leaders Want Study on Coronavirus Vaccine's Halal Compliance

As countries are looking to carry out the largest mass immunization in the history with COVID-19 vaccine, Islamic countries want to avoid rejection from its citizens.

Dec 2, 2020

Coronavirus

25 Governments Using SS7 Spy Tool For Cellphone Location to Track Activists, Opponents

At least 25 countries including Australia are using the spy tool to track down human rights activists and political opponents anywhere in the world

Dec 2, 2020

Cybersecurity

Google-Owned DeepMind's AI Program Solves 50-Year-Old Protein Folding Challenge That Humans Failed

Google-owned DeepMind's AlphaFold won a science competition in computational biology called CASP handily that could create a 3D model of how proteins will fold

Dec 1, 2020

Artificial intelligence

Leaked Wuhan Files Reiterate How China Mishandled Coronavirus Cases Initially

The internal documents from Hubei Provincial CDC revealed local authorities under-reporting new Coronavirus cases and lacked the urgency to address the situation

Dec 1, 2020

Coronavirus

Scientists Develop AI Tool That Can Detect Covid-19 from Chest X-Rays with 83% Accuracy

The tool that was trained with over 5,000 chest X-ray images of COVID-19 patients could speed up the process and help in early detection of the virus

Nov 30, 2020

Coronavirus Artificial intelligence

Beating Facial Recognition: Japanese Store Wants to Purchase 'Face' to Turn It into Super-Realistic Mask

As part of the 'That Face' project, Tokyo-based Kamenya Omote is paying to collect face data and turn them into 3D-printed masks with an incredible level of details

Nov 30, 2020

Coronavirus

Former Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne Hires Hackers to Prove 2020 US Election Was Rigged

Patrick Byrne's team of hackers and cyber sleuths would investigate Dominion voting machines and unearth evidence of voter fraud that cost Donald Trump the election

Nov 29, 2020

Us election 2020 Cybersecurity

Black Friday Sales Drop by 52% in Stores, Despite Surge in Thanksgiving Travel

Retail stores reported around a 52-percent drop in sales on Black Friday while online shopping surged by 21.6 percent across the US

Nov 29, 2020

Despite Disappointing Battery Day, Musk Braces for 1,000-KM Per Charge Tesla

After disappointing Battery Day, Tesla CEO said 1,000-km range battery is under development while he saw demand for smaller hatchback vehicles in Europe

Nov 28, 2020

Elon musk

Is Roscosmos Planning to Leave ISS? Russia's Own Space Station May Be Launched in 2025

With the International Space Station entering its final stretch of lifespan, Russian module Zvezda's Flight Director said it was better to launch its own space station

Nov 28, 2020

Nasa Space

ESA Awards Contract to ClearSpace That Will Clean Space Debris with Giant Pincers

The startup in its first mission in 2025 will grab a 2013 Vespa payload adapter with giant pincers to demonstrate the decluttering process

Nov 27, 2020

Nasa Space

US Army Developing Mind Reading Technology That Will Allow Silent Communication

The U.S. Army Research Office is developing a brain-computer interface that will enable the computer to read a soldier's thoughts and will provide corrective feedback

Nov 27, 2020

Artificial intelligence

Researchers Turn To AI-Powered Facial Recognition to Monitor Wild Animals

The AI monitoring system that can uniquely identify bears is a substitute for conventional methods where images are analyzed manually

Nov 25, 2020

Artificial intelligence

Can Pentagon Fix The 'Gap in Defense' Against Hypersonic Missiles?

With Russia and China possessing hypersonic missiles, the current anti-missile technologies are not enough to counter such a threat

Nov 25, 2020

Artificial intelligence Spacex

Amazon Actively Monitoring Climate Change Groups Considering Them Future Threat

Apart from monitoring climate change groups, Amazon also tracks its employees using a detective agency to prevent and monitor any labor union-related activity

Nov 24, 2020

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